On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 9:16 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Sun, 3 May 2015 12:16 pm, Mark Lawrence wrote: > >> I doubt that six will ever make the standard library as 2.7 only has >> another five years in official support. By that time I suppose we'll to >> going through the porting pain all over again with the transition from >> Python 3 to Python 4. Alright, alright, only joking > > > Guido has said that Python 4 will just be an incremental update from 3.x.
There is still, as I understand it, the possibility that Python 4.0 will ditch some things that will have been deprecated for a long time by 3.9. But yes, it'll be no more upheavalous to go from 3.9 to 4.0 than from 3.8 to 3.9. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
